How do I display a Windows file icon in WPF?

Question

Currently I'm getting a native icon by calling SHGetFileInfo. Then, I'm converting it to a bitmap using the following code. The Bitmap eventually gets displayed in the WPF form.

Is there a faster way to do the same thing?

try         {             using (Icon i = Icon.FromHandle(shinfo.hIcon))             {                 Bitmap bmp = i.ToBitmap();                 MemoryStream strm = new MemoryStream();                 bmp.Save(strm, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Png);                 BitmapImage bmpImage = new BitmapImage();                 bmpImage.BeginInit();                 strm.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);                 bmpImage.StreamSource = strm;                 bmpImage.EndInit();                  return bmpImage;             }         }         finally         {             Win32.DestroyIcon(hImgLarge);         } 

Answer 1

How about something like:

var icon = System.Drawing.Icon.ExtractAssociatedIcon(fileName); var bmp = icon.ToBitmap()